Some neighbors thought they heard fireworks around the time the Bears game started at noon Sunday, so they thought nothing of it. Twelve hours later, Mundelein police were called to perform a well-being check on Wellington Avenue after loved ones suddenly became unreachable.
It quickly became painfully obvious that the firecrackers had been gunshots, and those neighbors had been in the line of fire.
Four people were murdered and the gunman fatally shot himself on Sunday in a village of 30,000 not accustomed to mass murder crime scenes – a town named a century ago for a beloved man of peace, Chicago Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal George Mundelein…